State Housing Bills Deal Includes Skilled-and-Trained, Creates Good Jobs Building Much-Needed Homes

After a hotly contentious summer that saw the NorCal Carpenters Union pitted against the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC) on some critical housing policy...

Corruption, Retaliation, Bad Morale, Disrespect … and Another Ballot Measure

A culture of corruption, cronyism, and retaliation at the San Francisco Department of Public Works has led to at least one prison sentence and rock-bottom morale for hundreds of workers.

To ‘B,’ or Not to ‘B’?

In November 2020, San Francisco voters passed Proposition B. Prop B 2020, we’ll call it, amended the city charter to create two oversight boards: the Public Works Commission, to monitor the SF...

Inflation Reduction Act Incentivizes Prevailing Wages, Union Jobs

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the news lately. But there’s one significant detail that might not have made it through the chatter: This groundbreaking...

High-Flying SFO PLA Expires Next Month. Will Renewal Be Cleared for Takeoff?

Meetings between the San Mateo County Building and Construction Trades Council (SMBCTC) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) officials will begin in September to review a decade-old project...

Helpful New Tool on the Jobsite — or Hostile New Threat?

When considering the world of 3D printing and how it relates to the construction industry, it helps to ditch any traditional image that springs to mind when you think about what a printer is.